David Holmes wrote: > > Archie Cobbs wrote: > > The Sun API spec clearly states that Class.getClassLoader() > may return > > null, and in fact MUST return null for primitive type Class objects. > > So why worry about obviously buggy software? > > There are only two cases where getClassLoader is allowed to > return null: > > a) it may return null for a bootstrap loader so represented; and > b) it must return null when invoked in the Class object for a > primitive type > or void. > > Consequently application code should have every right to assert that > "this.getClass().getClassLoader()" is never null.
Sure, but, IMHO, if you write a library you cannot assume that your library won't be loaded by the bootstrap class loader. Regards, Jeroen _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
